Lucknow, Aug 3 - Haji Abdul Samad, a legislator of the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, Monday denied having assaulted Varanasi additional district magistrate (ADM) R.K.Singh and claimed the official was trying to implicate him.

Singh, who was posted as ADM (Protocol) in the city, has accused Samad of beating him up in his own office last month, following which there was an uproar among Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officers, who demanded legal action against the legislator.

While police in Varanasi lodged a case against Samad, no penal action was initiated against him. The Varanasi police even went to the extent of declaring him as 'absconding', yet he appeared in the state assembly Monday to attend the proceedings of the monsoon session's second day.

The legislator not only denied he had beaten up Singh but also accused the ADM of fabricating a case against him.

'I did not hit him even once; on the contrary, this ADM cooked up a story against me simply because I objected to his demand for bribe from a person who had gone to him for some work', Samad told reporters outside the state assembly here.